Hisham Barakat

Hisham Barakat (21 November 1950-29 June 2015) was the Attorney-General of Egypt from 10 July 2013 to 29 June 2015, succeeding Abdel Meguid Mahmoud and preceding Zakaria Abdel-Aziz Osman. He was assassinated in a car bombing on 29 June 2015.

Biography
Hisham Barakat was born on 21 November 1950 in the Kingdom of Egypt to a Muslim family. In 1973 he graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in law, and he joined the judiciary, and he became head of the technical office of the president of the Cairo Appeals Court. In 2013, President Adly Mansour appointed him as Attorney-General of Egypt after the Egyptian Revolution overthrew the dictator Hosni Mubarak and his Islamist dictator successor Mohamed Morsi. On 14 July 2013 he froze the assets of Muslim Brotherhood leaders Mohammed Badie, Khairat el-Shater, Rashad Baioumy, Mahdi Akef, Mohamed Saad al-Katatny, Salafist preacher Safawat Hegazy, moderate Islamist politician and former Muslim Brotherhood member Essam Sultan, Salafist politician Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, Islamist party secretary Tarek al-Zomor, and former parliament member Mohammed al-Omda.

Death
On 29 June 2015, Hisham Barakat left his home in the Heliopolis suburb of Cairo and headed to his downtown office with his convoy. However, a bomb attack occurred, wounding his two guards, a civilian, and Barakat himself. Barakat died from his injuries in the attack, which was only a few weeks before the second anniversary of the coup that ousted the Islamist president Mohamed Morsi from power in 2013.